six ways from Sunday

A form of six ways to Sunday — Thoroughly, completely, in every way imaginable.

Meanings

adverbsix ways from Sunday (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of six ways to Sunday.

    Her eyes were the color of bittersweet chocolate, made up in that sexy smudged I've-just-been-fucked-six-ways-from-Sunday look that I could never emulate without looking like I'd been sucker punched.

    2010, Regina Perry, I Kissed a Girl: A Virgin Lesbian Anthology
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    Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done. And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that, in fact, far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.

    2023 December 8, Mark Sweney, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk says Disney boss should be ‘fired immediately’ amid X ad boycott”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms & antonyms

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